Re: select_question

[Andreas Schwab]

address@hidden (Klaus Dittrich) writes:

|> glibc-2.2.2 and gcc-2.95.3, PII-smp, Kernel 2.4.3
|> 
|> May select change the value of struct timeval ?
|> 
|> It seems to me the values of timeout are  changed to reflect the
|> time passed by since the start of the select call.
|> 
|> Is this a bug, a new feature or have I overlooked something ?

>From SUS2:

        On successful completion, the object pointed to by the timeout
        argument may be modified.

Andreas.

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